These are the key events of the 1,256 of the War of Russia in Ukraine.
This is how things are on Sunday, August 3:
Struggle
- The Military Administration of kyiv warned the residents of the Ukrainian capital to take refuge on Saturday night due to the takeoff of a Russian Mig-31K, the carrier of the Kinzhal Ballistic missile of Kinzhal Russian Kinzhal, in a Telegram post.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) said that its team listened to explosions and saw smoke from an “auxiliary installation” located 1,200 meters from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russia in Ukraine.
- The administration of the plant installed in Russian said that a civilian was killed by Ukrainian bombings. A fire that exploded near the plant was controlled, the administrators added in a telegram position.
- An older man was killed inside a house that caught fire due to the fall of the debris of Ukrainian drones in the Samara in Russia region, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev published on Telegram.
- A Ukrainian drone attack killed a guard in an industrial center and caused a fire in the Rostav region in Russia, said interim governor Yury Slyusar. “The army repelled a massive air attack during the night,” destroying drones in seven districts, Slyusar wrote in Telegram.
- The Ukraine Military Intelligence Agency (Hur) said an explosion killed five soldiers from the Akhmat unit backed by Russia in a minibus near Melitopol occupied by Russian on Saturday.
- A Russian drone attack killed a 12 -year -old boy and left a 13 -year -old hospitalized with shrapnel wounds in the town of Sveska in the Ukraine region, said Governor Oleh Hryhorov.
- The Ukraine SBU intelligence agency said that Ukrainian drones reached the Russian Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones in Ukraine. The SBU said that it also hit a factory in Penza, which according to the military of Electronic Russia.
- The Ukrainian forces hit an oil refinery in Ryazan, about 180 km (110 miles) to the southeast of Moscow, causing a fire in their facilities, said the Ukraine unmanned systems forces on Telegram.
- The residents of the Korabel neighborhood in the Port City of southern Ukraine, Kherson, were urged to evacuate by the head of the military administration of the region after the Russian forces damaged a bridge that connected the neighborhood with the rest of the city.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said the Russian forces had captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in the East Region of Donetsk of Ukraine on Saturday.
- The Ministry of Defense in Moscow said in its daily report that its defense units knocked down a total of 338 Ukrainian drones during the night until Saturday morning. He didn't say how many Ukrainian drones they threw.
- The Ukraine Air Force said it had demolished 45 of 53 Russian drones launched towards its territory during the night until Saturday morning.
- Russia launched 6,129 Shahed -type drones against Ukraine in July 2025, the kyiv Independent reported, 14 times more than the 423 drones it launched during the same month last year.
Policy and diplomacy
- The New York Times reported that two unidentified Indian officials said that their country would continue to buy Russian oil, even after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, recently imposed a penalty not specified by the purchase of the country of Russian oil and military equipment.
- The Armenian Ministry of Defense said that its peace maintenance brigade would carry out joint drills with the US army from August 12 to 20, Interfax reported. Before a previous simulation with the United States in September 2023, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that Russia's war in Ukraine meant that he could not meet Armenia's security needs.
- The Ukrainian authorities arrested several officials about a “large -scale corruption scheme” in the defense sector, a few days after the legislators restored the independence of the two main investigation agencies in the country.
